Seems fitting. LEGO Mindstorms hardware was based on work at MIT, then MIT made a programming environment for it which LEGO adopted, then the App Inventor was clearly inspired by that software, then MIT gets App Inventor :) Let's see what they do with it this time.
In my experiences using App Inventor I found it, like Scratch, useful for rapid prototyping of simple apps and games. The problem was that it doesn't produce efficient enough apps for complex games than run well on today's phones.
